populate from another worksheet if two fields match
I have two worksheets, and want to populate a field if two fields in one sheet match two fields in the second.
Worksheet #1
WIX 51515 4.37 6.49 '01-57 CHR/FORD/MAZDA'
WIX 51516 4.37 6.49 '15-81 FORD/CHR/MAZ'
Worksheet #2
W51515 WIX 51515
W51516 WIX 51516
I need to populate a field in Worksheet#1 with the first column in Worksheet#2; if WS1.a?=WS2.b? AND WS1.b?=WS2.c?. Below is the result I would like, with the first column on Worksheet #2 inserted into Worksheet #1.
Worksheet #1 (finished product)
WIX 51515 4.37 6.49 '01-57 CHR/FORD/MAZDA' W51515
WIX 51516 4.37 6.49 '15-81 FORD/CHR/MAZ' W51516
Your wording sounds database. Using spreadsheets there are no tables, no fields, no joins - and no queries. . There are sheets, columns, rows, cells, cell ranges - and formulas returning their results to cells they are contained in. Nothing gets "populated".
To get something similar to a join (what kind of?) by formulas may be complicated, error-prone, and inefficient.
Only if your "?" question marks are meaning "the same row" things are simple. Otherwise there is need of better information.
@Lupp Not fully true. The difference between a db and a spreadsheet is merely the naming: the spreadsheet file is the db, the sheets/tabs the tables and the columns and rows in the sheets are same in a typical row-based relational db.